If gaming does an aged sire entice,
Then my young master swiftly learns the vice.

If gaming does an aged sire entice,
Then my young master swiftly learns the vice.

'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.

He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

The tongue talkes at the heads cost.

The tongue talkes at the heads cost.

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing.

No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing.

There is no evil without its compensation.

There is no evil without its compensation.